Alfheimr Renaissance

Female complications, day 14

Honesty fly

We wake up feeling nice and content, and I snuggle up against Jane's back, hugging her to me. My sexy Älskarinna. Jane is sleepy but sounds happy as greets me: "Good morning lover. That might not have been a sure top ten for you, but it was for me. I really don't regret that I got you to practise on Kari, and I have to give her credit for the interesting options on this four poster bed."

Jane sighs contentedly and it's nice just to hold her. Feel her body against mine.

"My wonderful sexy älskarinna. Jag älskar dig. I love you. I love talking and spending time with you. I love just lying and holding you and having you next to me." I feel Jane snuggle a little against me and happy with her position, she sighs contentedly, which only makes this nicer. "If I had known a few months ago..." I kiss her neck and feel her shiver and try to curl up a bit more. "I did not expect your awesome striptease yesterday, which was my first striptease ever. You looked so damn sexy peeling of clothes like that, and the look and makeup was the cherry on top. Good evening and night. I hope you don't expect to get up for a while, because I like to just lie and hold you like this, feel and smell your hair, and your body against mine. Oh yes, your mine, and I'm not letting you go!" It feels so corny to say that once again, but it's true and works all too well.

"My striptease was your first ever?" I can hear Jane smiling and being pleased about that. "Robert, a striptease pole over there beside the bed. There is room and I promise you'll not regret it. A friend had one installed in her bedroom that I practised a bit on. Of course just to be her training buddy and practice flexibility and strength."

"I'm convinced I would appreciated it, but I doubt it's a practical idea. A steel pipe can probably be entirely forgotten, cast brass will probably be too heavy, and making it out of wood is not practical because I don't think wood is durable enough for a thin long pole like that, with such forces applied to it."

"Did you just call me fat?" Her voice has taken on a slightly threatening tone, but she mostly sounds surprised.

"Pffffh! You're certainly not fat, but do you have any idea of the amount of energy a mass in motion has? Double the speed and the energy quadruple, and although you were mostly sensual yesterday, I reckon you can be quite energetic. Reversing a car into something at 5-10 km/h is a completely different thing than hitting a tree at 30km/h. Oak or something might be okay for a pole, as masts for sails are common, but the pole will be mounted at the flood and at the ceiling, which will mess with its flex, and the forces are applied to the middle more than the ends as a mast, so the risk is that the pole flexes out of its mounts, and it can split or give wooden splinters, which would dampen the mood. For the pole to be gripped, it needs to be around 40-45 mm, say 45 mm which is enough to grip but a bit stronger, or maybe 50 mm, because those 5 mm extra in diameter probably means 10-15% more in strength and less flexing. There are wooden beams in this room both up in the ceiling and under the floor to which the striptease pole can be attached which can take the forces down and to the sides."

Jane just smiles as she say; "It's best if the pole can rotate, but also be locked with a pin."

"It should rotate? That makes sense, but that means bearings that handle side load and axial load. Shit."

"That's so typical of you. You immediately start analysing the problem, trying to think of solutions, possibilities, etc. But it's good that one of us thinks extra hard, because we both know I don't do it enough."

"You shouldn't belittle yourself, and we all make mistakes. Just try to learn from your mistakes, and try to learn to think about consequences before. I hope we can always try to talk openly. I'm bad at it myself, and uncomfortable, especially about feelings and sex, but I would like us to try. Just give me some time to get used to it. I also want to hear about any wishes or fantasies you have, so I can try to fulfil them. I've said it before, but I like to make you happy relaxed bodies full of endorphins, and it's often more satisfying for me to do that, than if you do the same to me. The combination is of course the best, but satisfying me sexually is not difficult, as you must have noticed."

"Well, you're a man so you pretty much just have an 'On' switch in multiple locations, and it's a bit unfair that men are so easy. But you're good at playing, exploring and handling my buttons, joystick, knobs and complicated touch interface - and we females like that most can get multiple orgasms."

"Men would really have appreciated it if women also had an 'On' button, but it's a nice challenge as long as you let me play. Feedback is appreciated. I hope you will tell me your fantasies and what you like, and also tell me about less good sexual things and acts between us. Regardless of what you say or don't say, I will try to figure it out, but it might very wrong. No matter what you say, I will never judge you or ridicule you. No matter what. If I do, know that I'm disappointed in future me, and remind me so. Even if you want to have sex with other men, tell me before. As you know, it will hurt me, but I'd rather be hurt because you told the truth, than don't dare to say it, or do it in secret. Don't expect it to stay secret. So I wish you tell me, and I know it will be hard. It's hard for me, but I want you to know that you can trust me, and don't be afraid to hurt me with honesty. Be afraid to hurt me with dishonesty and deception. I can accept a lot, accept reality and live with it, but if you have been dishonest or deliberately hurt me, the risk is high that I choose to live without you. It would still hurt, but it would eventually pass."

Jane rolls over and hugs me. She looks teary as she looks into my eyes and kisses me.

"I also want us to be honest with each other. It was so liberating to talk to you in that couch, and I'm so extremely pleased with how that went, so yes; I will try to be honest and I also wish that you tell me about all your fantasies, because I want to try and fulfil them. I should have guessed that you never had a striptease before. You've told me ju where sexually inexperienced before coming here. I still can't believe that you never seen a full porno movie, but considering how uncomfortable you were just watching the sex scene in Atomic Blonde, I don't doubt it. Two hot women making sensual love in a movie and you try to look away, eat and drink to have an excuse to not watch because I wouldn't let you skip it. No wonder you turned that around on me for revenge. But it is cute that you feel you're intruding in the fictional characters private moment, when you have seen and experienced much more than that in real life several times. Also very telling about how much you respect privacy. I will try to talk to you about my fantasies, and I will try to give us both more sexy experiences you never even dreamt of. It's my duty as your awesome lover. Sadly it's impossible to help you join the Mile High Club."

Jane's beautiful face just has a wide happy grin. My eyes focus on her lips while I slowly zone out as I think about building an aeroplane. I've had those thoughts before. Building an aeroplane isn't terribly advanced as long as it won't be optimal. I know the principles and importance for control; angle of attack; airfoils; air resistance of different profiles; centre of gravity; rudder; wires or lines for controls and putting frame and wings in compression and rigidity; how an aeroplane handles in the air. And instrumentation such as altimeter; compass; air speed; climb and fall rate; artificial horizon; angle meter; fuel gauge; etc. I have flown RC models with or without FPV and built my own models in different materials. The basics are the same for a 2 meter model and a small aeroplane. It won't be a supersonic fighter or huge highly efficient long range passenger jet. I like electric gliders, long distance FPV, quad flying in terrain and have competed in drone racing. Materials and engine is the issue, but material is less of an issue since pine or laminated wood and stretched linen fabric works and lasts a long time even if it is not optimal. Total weight and the engine are the problem, because a glider doesn't count. The design, manufacturing and above all the fuel for a petrol or diesel engine is problematic. A steam engine weighs too much. An electric motor does not work as lead batteries weigh too much, and what I can build in batteries or electric motors has lousy efficiency and power to weight ratio. Turbines are too advanced to make with all its precision, and the demands on metals due to high rotational speed and heat. Pulse jet is a problem due to fuel, material and probably power to weight ratio. Maybe I can make some kind of alcohol or biofuel diesel engine. Rapeseed oil? Ethanol? Mixing them? Wood gas? A lightweight internal combustion engine would also be valuable for machines and ground vehicles. I notice Jane staring at me, and that I've come back to reality.

"You just seriously thought about building a bloody aeroplane, just so you can join the Mile High Club?!"

I just nod. "Not just. It's not impossible to build and the problem is mostly to make a sufficiently powerful, efficient and light engine and its fuel. It will probably be close to an ultralight, motorized hang glider or self-stabilising plane like a Cub or biplane from the early 1920s, but nothing wrong with them and the plane itself shouldn't be much of a problem to build, although I have to do a lot of structural and load testing as the weight has to be kept down. And I tend to oversize which is not good on aircraft where weight is at a premium. I haven't piloted any real aircraft before, only radio controlled and in simulators, and don't really look forward to the risk of being the test pilot, especially since it will be close to the stall limit. An autogyro is tempting as well as some kind of parachute even if that parachute is bad. I've crashed more than one RC aeroplane before I could get the model out of stall or a death spiral, because I like slower RC and flying at low altitude, except when it's long range FPV electric gliders. I have some videos on my phone and tablet.

The engine and fuel are the biggest issue, especially if the aircraft is to be reasonably useful and carry two people, or carry some kind of cargo and have range. The aeroplane is going to need a 20 hp engine or more to even try getting it airborne, and for a practical aircraft I'm going to need to create a lightweight 40-80 hp engine, and with good reliability and runtime between service. Several very very difficult problems, especially here with this level of technology and lack of fuel and lubricants.

I'm thinking of an alcohol or biofuel engine, which can also fill the niche for a lot of power in a compact size and light weight, but even a bad and inefficient engine would be useful for other applications like a small powerboat or car, and the engine doesn't need a lot of horsepower for an ultralight style aeroplane or more glider design. For just being the first motorized flight, something with a short lifespan and small tank will suffice. I don't think a pulse jet can be manufactured either. Create fuel like propane is troublesome, and wood gas probably isn't enough and the stresses the material must withstand are a big problem, otherwise a pulse jet would have been mechanically simple if I used the more modern U design instead of vibrating diaphragm valve or shutters like in the German V-1 flying bomb. Using a pulse jet to fly would be extra impressive due to the noise - talk about using thunder to fly - because pulse jet engines are only really good at converting fuel into noise, and as a bonus you get a lot of heat and some power. Maybe I should try building a pulse jet in steel, and try feeding it with alcohol. It should scare the crap out of everyone, and would be fun and impressive to try on a boat even if it's going to be slow. Unless I can get the boat to plane."

"Robert. I don't really care! I just said something I thought was impossible. I should have known that for you impossible just takes longer. That should be a stupid slogan, not a realistic goal! Bollocks! You might actually build a real aeroplane here, with stuff made here. 100% native Alfheimr. In the bloody Viking age. 'Yes, your knights in shining armour are impressive when they're all lined up with their banners fluttering in the wind. That strange noise getting louder? Oh, nothing; just my Air force making the bombing run I radioed in.' I kind of wish that I actually had geology and chemistry as hobbies so I could help you more."

"One of the reasons for the pavilion is to enable larger construction projects. An aeroplane wing fits easily in there, and I can actually build a whole aeroplane there, but it's a pain to get it out of there unless I build it as detachable sections. The railing on the short side against the basement entrance and the court yard is made to be easily removed. Gliders will happen in a few years, but I don't have a good slope without trees, or it will be a weight driven winch for acceleration like the Wright brothers used. People will more easily accept that as real flight if the aeroplane take off from flat ground. It would be fun to have an aeroplane even for a shorter distance or flight duration, but from a functional and useful point of view, a seaplane or a flying boat model would be the only practical option. Most fields are not large flat fields that has been ploughed for hundreds of years like in Midgård, and especially not ploughed with large wide machines, but there are plenty of water surfaces nearby and beside the coast and fjords, Sweden alone has something like twenty five thousand lakes that are larger than 0.1 square kilometer, and Norway have something like twenty thousand. However, it is difficult to get a seaplane to plane and leave the surface and take off. Seaplanes are generally heavier and have more air resistance, which also requires more engine power. I'll need to try different solutions like papier-mâché and the like to save weight and reduce air resistance."

"Oh my god! The pavilion and papier-mâché was created before we moved here! That was half a year ago! You knew and planned aeroplanes back then!"

"Yes. I know about important design things like pontoons, the step pontoons have, the shape, etc, as well as several flying boat designs and solutions. I also know the risk of them rolling over when landing or when they take off, and will require calm water, which smaller lakes often have, but a flying boat is better than pontoons and should be overall lighter with perhaps less air resistance. A usable flying boat that can fly to Borgarsandr or Skiringsalr would be nice and impressive as hell, not to mention landing on the lake at Northmens Tingen if that lake is big enough, but the river certainly is, although wind direction matters."

"Bloody hell! We might actually fly to Borgarsandr in a few years! Unless we take the speedboat or the car! That really is 1920s!"

"Don't hype it up for yourself. Take it as it comes. Creating something practical to fly that's reliable and safe enough for us, might be too difficult even in my lifetime, because there's so many issues because of how primitive the technology here is. But yeah, I hope to start this summer, and I expect the first real steamboat to be built by then and maybe the steamcar will be built by the fall, although we will hardly take the steamcar to Borgarsandr. I already have everything I need for the first steamboat prototype, it's just that other things have gotten in between. That's why I had two catamaran ferries made, when we only needed one. Big flat surface for the steam boiler I have in one of the storerooms. I already have a steam engine, and I plan to try with paddle wheels and a propeller."

"Oh God!" Jane is really shocked, and it's kind of amusing.

"I'm constructing an electric outboard motor, and will test a modified faering on the lake, just to cross it off the list. It doesn't get much easier than an electric motor, gear, propeller and a switch. Although I complicated that a bit by making a rotary throttle switch on the handle which change how the battery is connected to give some speed control. It's mainly that the parts are so valuable or I might have tried to build a radio controlled model aeroplane. There's plenty of mountains and hills to throw the plane from here, though I have to be careful with all the surrounding sea. I've been thinking of using the valley below the village as a small airfield, because there are hills and mountains all around except to the south. I should build a free-flying model out of wood and paper. I think it would be appreciated, and Iselin should love to build her own. There are many flying toys that are more or less advanced to make, but haven't seen or heard of any here."

"Yeah, she loves throwing paper aeroplanes, and they all love boomerangs. When you start making model planes and flying toys I think I want to be part of that. I need more hobbies and that feels different and more modern than pretty much anything else, and not so bloody complicated as radios and all that. Doh! What am I saying? Of course you will make it complicated and advanced."

"It will mostly be fiddly work with wood, glue and paper and it doesn't have to be complicated, but some complication helps and makes it better. It would be practical, for example, to have a small mechanical timer that releases the stabiliser to a 50 degree angle which makes the plane land after the preset time, although the same can be done with a burning fuse. Or a mechanism that disengages after you pull launched the free-flying model with a cord. A small alcohol-powered model engine can also be practical and fun since I can do control line flying, and can be good practice for making bigger engines. I can turn small things on my lathe. I've been thinking about making a radio control in the 30 MHz range with the remote control from the SDR dongle, and maybe build a RC aeroplane with move control surfaces via electromagnets. Simple rudder control like bang-bang control that spring to neutral would work. It's enough with rudder-elevator or aileron-elevator to be enjoyable, and it could be built well enough to be crash resistant. Sorry. Thoughts that goes on tangents as usual. As you know, I like solving problems and figure out solutions."

Jane looks amused as I once again gone astray in my musings, and this time about building an unnecessary but fun RC controller, although that might be good for other sejd and magic.